Zap Energy has advanced its Century fusion engineering test platform to operate for more than one hundred plasma shots at 0.2 ...

Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left ...

Photosynthesis and other natural processes depend on energy moving quickly and efficiently across molecules. When sunlight ...

Microscopic turbulence in plasma can trigger macroscopic structural changes. In complex physical systems, such cross-scale ...

Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits ...

A study from Rice University, published in PRX Quantum Oct. 1, 2025, has found that energy transfers more quickly between ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

Scientists in the United States have come up with a physics-based algorithm that could one day make it possible for nuclear ...

A new AI program observed physical phenomena and uncovered relevant variables -- a necessary precursor to any physics theory. But the variables it discovered were unexpected. A precursor step to ...

1 The Arts and Humanities (AH) and Social Sciences (SS) perspectives are subsets of the Breadth of Knowledge (BOK) requirements in the Core Curriculum. No more than two BOK courses can be taken with ...

Mechanical engineers put energy and machines to work–from rockets, robots, and airplanes to automobiles, satellites, and renewable energy systems. In RIT's mechanical engineering BS degree you'll ...